Word: schaap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fran Tarkenton was apoplectic. Sportswriter Dick Schaap had given the New York Giants' quarterback a slim volume to pass the time on the New York-Boston jet. Tarkenton flipped the first few pages and wept through the last three chapters. Now, the night before the big game, the whole damn team was reading the thing with identical results. "Listen!" he telephoned Schaap. "This book is destroying the Giants just when we're supposed to be psyched up for the Patriots...
...York Giants football team was leaving for Boston to play the Patriots in Harvard Stadium, writer Dick Schaap gave a copy of "Love Story" to Fran Tarkenton to read on the plane. After sobbing through the last three chapters, Tarkenton passed it on to his roommate, a mammoth lineman. Same result...
After the book had circulated through the squad that afternoon and the night before the game, with predictable results, Tarkenton telephoned Schaap and told him that the book was "destroying the team when they were supposed to be getting psyched up for the Pats...
...SCHAAP is obviously a much better writer than one would conclude from the book. His epilogue, which explains how the book came about, and the problems Schaap faced in trying to nail down Namath, is superbly written, and departs noticeably from the Namath-voice that comprises the remainder of the work...
...Schaap's unfortunate failure to write I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow , as such a profile, with his own impression in his own words, dooms the book to fall into the same class as Al Hirshberg's Yaz, or Hawk, about former Red Sox outfielder Ken Harrelson, or Mike Holovak's Violence Every Sunday. And who remembers them any more...